Cabo Creativity

Last week’s first ever 5-day series of written work “The Five Elements of Control” featured 5 distinct ways in which you can control and increase the impact of your work.  Those elements were through controlling for luminance, color, geometry, context, and composition. Hopefully, the perspective can be one many will find useful in elevating their own work.  In taking the task to heart, today (my first day back after a week-long break in beautiful Cabo San Lucas), I am sharing a slideshow of some of my favorite recent shots.  So, rather than suggesting others incorporate these techniques, I am trying to apply them to my own efforts as well. Here is where you get the chance to be the critic for my work, so by all means, share your thoughts, comments, feedback, and perspectives below.

In other blog and podcast notes, don’t forget, the $500 giveaway for the Thinktank Photo Multimedia Bag and Topaz Labs plugin bundle is still going on over on the Flickr site.  We’re in the last week for submissions so we can wrap things up by the end of September, so time is drawing nigh!  The thread to share your pictures (and the guidelines) is here for those interested.  It’s a great opportunity to take advantage of some great products from Topaz Labs and Thinktank Photo (and thanks go out to the sponsors for their generous contributions)!

In case you haven’t noticed the sidebar, there are now short little audio tips being offered up courtesy of the folks over at Audioboo.  The latest comes  the shores of Cabo San Lucas with the peaceful waves of the Pacific crashing in the background!  So, for the feed readers out there, stop on over to the blog and check out the audio tips – some hopefully good stuff there too.

Thanks also to the recording capabilities of my wife’s point-and-shoot camera, you are in for a special treat tomorrow in the form of a Quicktime video!  Until then, here’s the promised stills from the trip.  Happy shooting everyone and we’ll see you back here again tomorrow.  (Don’t forget to let me know your thoughts and feedback in the comments!)

Mexican Harbor

Mexican Harbor

Negative Space

Negative Space

The Power of the Waves

The Power of the Waves

Umbrella Dots

Umbrella Dots

In Honor of Escher

In Honor of Escher

Through a Window

Through a Window

As a little postscript, since many will ask, I did my post processing in Lightroom and Photomatix (yes, some of these are HDR images).  One image did reveal a pretty heavy dust spot on my sensor, so that one did see a round-robin through Photoshop for that one speck.

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